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judy's over there with gauze of the boston political report and our gre political e editor. >> woodruff: we'll be talking with you and christina over the days of this convention. we've just heard this really remarkable candidate from the state of utah, daughter of haitian immigrants. and christina, this is different for the republican party to be putting someone forward like this as a candidate for congress. >> absolutely. and not just her speaking on the stage but very biographical video sitting there and looking as one of the stars of the party. she's in a competitive race here with congressman jim matheson. he's a democrat obviously so they are really trying to showcase her as one of the younger fresher faces of the party. she's one you'll see continually out on the campaign even though she's from a state like utah not considered a battle ground state. >> woodruff: the political report. how much diversity is there in the republican members of congress right now. >> i think it's growing. it's slowly growing but it's something that they're trying to get through this recruiting class. i
judy's over there with gauze of the boston political report and our gre political e editor. >> woodruff: we'll be talking with you and christina over the days of this convention. we've just heard this really remarkable candidate from the state of utah, daughter of haitian immigrants. and christina, this is different for the republican party to be putting someone forward like this as a candidate for congress. >> absolutely. and not just her speaking on the stage but very biographical...
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a three-judge panel in boston found the 1996 law unconstitutionally bars same-sex couples from federal benefits granted to heterosexuals. the court did not address the law's definition of marriage, as restricted to one man and woman. the case is almost certainly bound for the u.s. supreme court. republicans in the u.s. house fell short today on a bill that would ban abortions based on gender. the bill carried prison terms of up to five years for doctors. supporters said some immigrant groups have brought to this country a tradition of targeting female fetuses for abortion. opponents argued the government should not intrude into such private matters. there were new warnings today about europe's currency system, as continuing debt troubles roiled nation after nation. the rising concerns also rippled across the atlantic. ( explosion ) from the violence-filled streets of madrid to the poster-riddled streets of dublin, evidence of europe's economic distress was in plain sight. the urgency was underlined by president obama in a video conference late wednesday with european leaders. spokesman
a three-judge panel in boston found the 1996 law unconstitutionally bars same-sex couples from federal benefits granted to heterosexuals. the court did not address the law's definition of marriage, as restricted to one man and woman. the case is almost certainly bound for the u.s. supreme court. republicans in the u.s. house fell short today on a bill that would ban abortions based on gender. the bill carried prison terms of up to five years for doctors. supporters said some immigrant groups...
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the army after 23 years and is now an esteemed professor of history and international relations at boston university and a frequent contributor to publications both left and right. his book "the limits of power: the end of american exceptionalism" became a bestseller. "washington rules: america's path to permanent war" was a tough- minded critique of our bloated and costly national security complex. he's the editor of is new book of essa: "the short american century: a postmortem," recently released by harvard university press. andrew bacevich, welcome back. >> thanks very much for having me. >> the headlines from afghanistan get uglier and uglier every day. the rampage of that soldier, the burning of the koran, marines urinating on corpses, nato helicopters firing into and killing civilians, the corruption, and vast sums of corruption and the money that's passing through kabul. do you see these as isolated episodes, or a pattern thais undermining the mission and making success impossible? >> i don't know that there's a pattern in the sense that one incident is related to another in any w
the army after 23 years and is now an esteemed professor of history and international relations at boston university and a frequent contributor to publications both left and right. his book "the limits of power: the end of american exceptionalism" became a bestseller. "washington rules: america's path to permanent war" was a tough- minded critique of our bloated and costly national security complex. he's the editor of is new book of essa: "the short american century: a...
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the same way that jon huntsman's endorsementby the "boston globe", the "boston globe" endorsement of a republican in a conservative primary is not necessarily helpful. i mean it doesn't resolve jon huntsman's problem, just a little bit like the washington times conservative newspaper picking the union leader here picking a democrat in a primary, if anything it probably consciously leads to ignoring it. but i think that he doesn't have the kind of populous message that mike huckabee had or pat buchanan had before him or economic message the same way. but he does, he has established a connection and it's a vulnerability that romney has. romney does not have that emotional-- . >> woodruff: what about huntsman and the opening or not for him. >> i'm not sure there is that opening. he's been there a long time, still only polling 7 or 8. i think if you are a main street republican, you go to mitt romney at this point. now maybe he has that opening. i don't think he really ever figured out how to run the race. was he going to run as the moderate who would stand for clear moderation or some k
the same way that jon huntsman's endorsementby the "boston globe", the "boston globe" endorsement of a republican in a conservative primary is not necessarily helpful. i mean it doesn't resolve jon huntsman's problem, just a little bit like the washington times conservative newspaper picking the union leader here picking a democrat in a primary, if anything it probably consciously leads to ignoring it. but i think that he doesn't have the kind of populous message that mike...
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my attorney in boston. >> i think you may want to go back to the well? >> but. >> nancy gibbs and mike duffy our friend at time magazine have a new book coming on the club, the president's club about the former presidents, and it is quite true when you ha t great good fortune to talk to presidents, how clear it is, tier of the club and who is in the one term men's grill. the other guy can go all the way to the dining room. >> and president carter and president bush, can only eat sandwiches. >> but i think, of course, distance changes things, george w. bush explicitly counts on that, someone who reads a lot of history, i just read four books last year on jeash washington's presidency, think people will change their view, michael taught this a long time ago, your rule is 25 years, about? to be able to really appreciate -- >> rose: have we changed our idea of our opinion of john kennedy in 25 years later. >> there have been all sorts of oscillations. >> in the sixties was a hero and you learn about him in the 1970's to bring him down and back and forth, it
my attorney in boston. >> i think you may want to go back to the well? >> but. >> nancy gibbs and mike duffy our friend at time magazine have a new book coming on the club, the president's club about the former presidents, and it is quite true when you ha t great good fortune to talk to presidents, how clear it is, tier of the club and who is in the one term men's grill. the other guy can go all the way to the dining room. >> and president carter and president bush, can...
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joining me from boston, doris kearns goodwin. she worked as a white house fellow for lyndon johnson. she's rain number of books including "lyndon johnson: the american dream." and her pulitzer prize winning work on franklin delano roosevelt. joing me inew yk, micel beschloss. he is a historian who has written a number of books including "presidential courage." jim fallows. he served as a speech writer for jimmy carter. he wrote a piece on president obama in the "atlantic" magazine called "obama explained." jon meacham, he is the author of "american lion: andrew jackson in the white house." it earned him a pulitzer prize. he's currently writing on george h.w. bush and thomas jefferson. finally, robert caro, he is a two-time pulier prize winning author and has dedicated decades to writing about lyndon johnson. his fourth volume "the passage of power," is set to come out this may. i am pleased to have them here to have this discussion about men and power, the power of the office and how those two things come together. i begin with b
joining me from boston, doris kearns goodwin. she worked as a white house fellow for lyndon johnson. she's rain number of books including "lyndon johnson: the american dream." and her pulitzer prize winning work on franklin delano roosevelt. joing me inew yk, micel beschloss. he is a historian who has written a number of books including "presidential courage." jim fallows. he served as a speech writer for jimmy carter. he wrote a piece on president obama in the...
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eventually we moved from boston. our daughter kate grew into an amazing girl of faith and love. [cheers and applause] but complai cases of her -- complications of her birth remained with her and after 26 years of miracles and struggle she passed away just a year and a half ago. in the midst of making the final decision to run for president, which had to be the most difficult of their lives, when they heard of kate's passing both mitt and ann paused to personally reach out to us and extend us sympathy and express their love. it seems to me when it comes to loving our neighbor, we can talk about it or we can live it. the romney's live it every single day. when the world looks at mitt romney, they may see him as the founder of a successful business, the leader of olympic games or a governor, but when i see mitt romney, i know him to be a loving father, a man of faith, and a caring and compassionate friend. it is with great excitement and renewed hope that i think of how our country will be blessed as it is led by a man who is not only so very accomplished and capable but who has de
eventually we moved from boston. our daughter kate grew into an amazing girl of faith and love. [cheers and applause] but complai cases of her -- complications of her birth remained with her and after 26 years of miracles and struggle she passed away just a year and a half ago. in the midst of making the final decision to run for president, which had to be the most difficult of their lives, when they heard of kate's passing both mitt and ann paused to personally reach out to us and extend us...
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there's a beautiful sentence from justice white dissenting in a case called "first national bank of boston vs. bellotti," where he said, "the state need not permit its own creature to coume it." and yet, this court is saying that, "we must permit the creation of the state legislures to consume our politics." and so to me, the citizens united case is the emblem for the whole era we're in. we're living in the "citizens united era," i think. >> but before citizens united, wealthy people were funneling money into politics, corporations were forming political action committees. and ceos of those corporations were lavishing money on selected favored political candidates. >> absolutely right, the corporate voice was never missing. and that's something, y know, justice stevens has pointed out. he said, "there were many faults to american politics. but nobody thought that a lack or a dearth of corporate voices was among the vices." but there was still a radical change effectuated by the majority -- >> how so? radical? >> in citizens united. >> what do you mean? >> because before corporations could
there's a beautiful sentence from justice white dissenting in a case called "first national bank of boston vs. bellotti," where he said, "the state need not permit its own creature to coume it." and yet, this court is saying that, "we must permit the creation of the state legislures to consume our politics." and so to me, the citizens united case is the emblem for the whole era we're in. we're living in the "citizens united era," i think. >> but...
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now wre going to go to boston where margaret warner is outside romney headquarters in boston. margaret. >> warner: hi. it's cold here. >> ifill: it's cold here. so far, we've made several calls, all of them in state so far that were not the contested state. but is it boosting people at all? do they feel like this is going as well as they had hoped or are they a little bit nervous about what to expect later? >> warner: well, as i mentioned earlier gwen, they have been nervous all day, even though they-- by the end the day, they were thinking their own turnout was great. here's what i'm being told. as i mentioned earlier, they had hoped that virginia would be pretty clearly a romney win pretty early on. that-- it's not yet. that said, it's only one hour since the polls closed. and they know that the networks are being very careful, and the associated press, to call any state. so they're not yet disheartened by that. but this is a very big-- this hour now is very big to them. new hampshire was key. they had high hopes of getting those four electoral vote, that there had been a tr
now wre going to go to boston where margaret warner is outside romney headquarters in boston. margaret. >> warner: hi. it's cold here. >> ifill: it's cold here. so far, we've made several calls, all of them in state so far that were not the contested state. but is it boosting people at all? do they feel like this is going as well as they had hoped or are they a little bit nervous about what to expect later? >> warner: well, as i mentioned earlier gwen, they have been nervous...
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that was five minutes after governor romney began his concession speech in boston. miami mayor carlos gimenez apologized to voters, but he insisted officials had done all they could. >> we had a very long ballot. it was the longest ballot in florida history. were there problems in certain precincts? without a doubt. >> suarez: and the county elections department said it was simply a numbers game. >> this is volume driven. >> suarez: late today, election workers in miami-dade county and across florida were still counting thousands of absentee ballots. delays mean the presidential result has not been made final. the state has until saturday to certify results and confirm who will get the 29 electoral votes. for more on the ongoing ballot counting in florida and the sluggish voting elsewhere, we turn to marc cuto,he "mimi herald's" political writer. and curt anderson of the associated press. he's been tracking problems in polling places across the country. i know conditions varied from place to place, but what were the main drivers of the really long waits to cast a vo
that was five minutes after governor romney began his concession speech in boston. miami mayor carlos gimenez apologized to voters, but he insisted officials had done all they could. >> we had a very long ballot. it was the longest ballot in florida history. were there problems in certain precincts? without a doubt. >> suarez: and the county elections department said it was simply a numbers game. >> this is volume driven. >> suarez: late today, election workers in...
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at boston unirsity and ma fainaru-wada, investigative reporter with espn who is working on a documentary about this subject for front line. let me start with you. what do you see is the key finding from this study that perhaps we didn't know before? >> well, this study, this disease chronic traw ma'am i cannen self-op thee has been around since the 1920s. there has only been a smattering of reports. in this paper we more than doubled the world's experience with this disorder and take it from the very beginning where it first affects the nervous system, where it affects the nervous system and then we see it expand progressively in older and older individuals until it really is a destructive disease that affects most of the brain. >> brown: just to be clear here, the focus is less on the, i guess, the major hits or major concussions and more on sort of repetition over time? >> right. this is exposure to what we call mild traumatic brain injury. usually considered almost significan h. they don't even have to rise to the level of concussion. they can be sub concussion, but when you're expose
at boston unirsity and ma fainaru-wada, investigative reporter with espn who is working on a documentary about this subject for front line. let me start with you. what do you see is the key finding from this study that perhaps we didn't know before? >> well, this study, this disease chronic traw ma'am i cannen self-op thee has been around since the 1920s. there has only been a smattering of reports. in this paper we more than doubled the world's experience with this disorder and take it...
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today, the hacking collective claimed responsibility for taking down the boston police department web site. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: and to the political campaign, where the attention has moved west to the state of nevada. mitt romney was aiming today to go two-for-two, adding a win tomorrow in the nevada caucuses to tuesday's victory in florida. and he tried to move on from the flap over this comment on wednesday. >> i'm not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net there. if it needs repair, i'll fix it. >> woodruff: romney initially defended his statement, but late yesterday told nevada political reporter jon ralston that it was a poor choice of words. >> i misspoke. i've said something that is similar to that but quite acceptable for a long time. and you know, when you do i- don't-know-how-many thousands of interviews, now and then, you may get it wrong. and i misspoke. >> woodruff: at a las vegas rally today, romney rival newt gingrich said the explanation no longer mattered-- the damage was done. >> so governor romney,
today, the hacking collective claimed responsibility for taking down the boston police department web site. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: and to the political campaign, where the attention has moved west to the state of nevada. mitt romney was aiming today to go two-for-two, adding a win tomorrow in the nevada caucuses to tuesday's victory in florida. and he tried to move on from the flap over this comment on wednesday. >> i'm not...
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michael can fish at the "boston globe," thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> now to gwen ifill following the came in south carolina. gwen, you are in rock hill and we just learned there's a new "time"/cnn poll showingomney's lead shrinking in south carolina. you've just come from a romney event. how is he reacting to all this new focus on his taxes? >> that's right, judy, his lean has gone from 20 points to 10 points. still a significant lead but obviously he feels newt gingrich breathing down his back. newt gingrich has been saying, you know, listen, my plan is to have a 15% tax rate for everyone and so therefore we just want to do what mitt romney did. but mitt romney should release his taxes it's that tax return issue which seems to have residents from the people we're talking to on the ground here we can also see both candidates are feeling the heat. newt gingrich is attacking romney calling him stupid and silly, or at least calling his attacks that. and romney has unleashed a bunch of surrogates and press releases attacking newt gingrich. so what we see here is a tig
michael can fish at the "boston globe," thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> now to gwen ifill following the came in south carolina. gwen, you are in rock hill and we just learned there's a new "time"/cnn poll showingomney's lead shrinking in south carolina. you've just come from a romney event. how is he reacting to all this new focus on his taxes? >> that's right, judy, his lean has gone from 20 points to 10 points. still a significant lead...
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. >> reporter: the schaeffer residence in newton massachusetts outside boston. fraternal twins becky and naomi both went away to college in canada, graduated last year, both worked part time. both are so-called boomerang kids, back home with their parents. >> can you tell us a little bit about what your high school friends are doing now? are many of them back in newton as well? >> most of them are. i would say that only one of our high school friends, one or two of them have really gotten good full-time jobs. >> reporter: the fifth person in the schaeffers' kitchen? sociologist and johns hopkins dean catherine newman demonstrating her field work skill. >> i didn't want to move somewhere random. >> i kind of wish i did it. not that i don't have living at home. >> why do you say that? >> i just feel like when i first moved home, i was like okay, becky, six months and you won't be here anymore. i feel like i'm getting a little bit complacent. >> reporter: the schaeffers could have sprung sfrat from newman's new book the accordian family which chronicles a worldwide
. >> reporter: the schaeffer residence in newton massachusetts outside boston. fraternal twins becky and naomi both went away to college in canada, graduated last year, both worked part time. both are so-called boomerang kids, back home with their parents. >> can you tell us a little bit about what your high school friends are doing now? are many of them back in newton as well? >> most of them are. i would say that only one of our high school friends, one or two of them have...
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." >> warner: for our american graduate series, betty ann bowser reports on a boston school, where early intervention for students with learning disabilities is producing lower drop-out rates. >> if we want kids to graduate from high school, that having a and for kids with significant learning disabilities, providing accommodations for reading a writing are critical. >> brown: ray suarez examines new studies showing a daily dose of aspirin may prevent and even treat cancer. >> warner: and gwen ifill talks with two senate veterans-- new mexico's jeff bingaman and maine's olympia snowe about their decisions to quit. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastin
." >> warner: for our american graduate series, betty ann bowser reports on a boston school, where early intervention for students with learning disabilities is producing lower drop-out rates. >> if we want kids to graduate from high school, that having a and for kids with significant learning disabilities, providing accommodations for reading a writing are critical. >> brown: ray suarez examines new studies showing a daily dose of aspirin may prevent and even treat...
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brown: we have the story of libyan fighters recovering from their war-wounds thousands of miles away in boston. >> many of them are gunshot wounds and there are severe hand injuries to shoulder injuries. there are, obviously, patients that also have p.t.s.d. >> woodruff: margaret warner updates the escalating tensions between iran and the west. >> brown: and we close with the discovery of new species found in remote hot springs far beneath the surface of the ocean near antarctica. >> just hoards of these crabs called yetty crabs that have sort of harry chests and harry arms th they grow bacteria on. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contribu
brown: we have the story of libyan fighters recovering from their war-wounds thousands of miles away in boston. >> many of them are gunshot wounds and there are severe hand injuries to shoulder injuries. there are, obviously, patients that also have p.t.s.d. >> woodruff: margaret warner updates the escalating tensions between iran and the west. >> brown: and we close with the discovery of new species found in remote hot springs far beneath the surface of the ocean near...
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michael can fish at the "boston globe," thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> now to gwen ifill following the came in south carolina. gwen, you are in rock hill and we just learned there's a new "time"/cnn poll showingomney's lead shrinking in south carolina. you've just come from a romney event. that tax return issue which seems to have residents from the people we're talking to on the ground here we can also see both candidates are feeling the heat. newt gingrich is attacking romney calling him stupid and silly, or at least calling his attacks that. and romney has unleashed a bunch of surrogates and press releases attacking newt gingrich. so what we see here is a tightening race i haven't heard anyone who thinks romney won't win on saturday but there's more nervousness than this time last week. >> reporter: you mentioned what people on the ground are saying. what are the voters, the people of south carolina, how are they reacting to this kerr flufl over the taxes? >> well, judy, there's no question this debate certainly focused people's minds. newt gingrich had a good ni
michael can fish at the "boston globe," thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> now to gwen ifill following the came in south carolina. gwen, you are in rock hill and we just learned there's a new "time"/cnn poll showingomney's lead shrinking in south carolina. you've just come from a romney event. that tax return issue which seems to have residents from the people we're talking to on the ground here we can also see both candidates are feeling the heat....
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the president appeared at his 100th fund-raiser of the calendar year last night in boston. today in atlanta and miami, where he attended three more, he suggested he is just trying to keep up. >> no matter how much money is spent on the other side, when people are engaged and involved and they understand that our core values and who we are and what we're giving to the next generation is at stake, the american people fight for what's right. >> ifill: as the next campaign reporting deadline approached the obama campaign followed up with a blunt email appeal today. i will be the first president in modern history to be outspent in his re-election campaign, the email read. if things continue as they have so far, we can be outspent and still win but we can't be outspent 10-to-1 and still win. romney has been on the money trail as well. he spent his weekend at a fund raising retreat for deep-pocketed donors in park city, utah. the minimum cost of admission: $50,000 a head. >> i'm going to do everything i can do. i'm going to bundle every penny. >> ifill: 700 donors made the utah tr
the president appeared at his 100th fund-raiser of the calendar year last night in boston. today in atlanta and miami, where he attended three more, he suggested he is just trying to keep up. >> no matter how much money is spent on the other side, when people are engaged and involved and they understand that our core values and who we are and what we're giving to the next generation is at stake, the american people fight for what's right. >> ifill: as the next campaign reporting...
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to see how romney's fighting for ohio, i need to go 700 miles east to campaign headquarters in boston. zach move at is romney's digital director. >> essentially the obama has had that significant head start. how do you deal with that challenge? >> we don't judge ourselves based upon the obama campaign because if we did we would judge against a man who has run unopposed for the last year. if we only rely on the actual television we'll lose this election. >> sreenivasan: the survey found roughly third of the electorate is more difficult to reach by traditional campaign methods. they're the people who spend more of their lives online. he calls these voters off the grid. >> this large off the grid population, who are they? >> we define them by the term of people who don't watch live television anymore. other than sports they choose to live their lives on demand. they primarily watch d.v.r., netflix, they're choosing when they consume their content. that's the big difference. it's an astronomical amount of people who do not see a tv spot. one in three voters. >> sreenivasan: that works out
to see how romney's fighting for ohio, i need to go 700 miles east to campaign headquarters in boston. zach move at is romney's digital director. >> essentially the obama has had that significant head start. how do you deal with that challenge? >> we don't judge ourselves based upon the obama campaign because if we did we would judge against a man who has run unopposed for the last year. if we only rely on the actual television we'll lose this election. >> sreenivasan: the...
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beth healy is with the "boston globe." and dan primack is a senior editor at "fortune" magazine. welcome to you both. dan primak, first of all, for those of us who don't work in the financial services industry, what does bain do? >> bain for the most part, they have a lot of different businesses, but their primary business is private equity. which basically means you buy a company, you try to improve it and then you try to sell it later at a higher price either another private equity firm, another corporation or, in some cases, take it public. that's the gist of the business. they have investors who give them the money to do it, then they take a cut of the profits if there are some. the. >> woodruff: and beth healy, what's the role of borrowing in all this? we know a lot of this has to do with so-called leveraged buyouts. so what's the role of debt in all this? >> that's right. so when the company buys... when companies like bain buy a firm they also borrow a lot of money from the bank. in fact, they borrow much more than they typically put down. you might put down $10 million an
beth healy is with the "boston globe." and dan primack is a senior editor at "fortune" magazine. welcome to you both. dan primak, first of all, for those of us who don't work in the financial services industry, what does bain do? >> bain for the most part, they have a lot of different businesses, but their primary business is private equity. which basically means you buy a company, you try to improve it and then you try to sell it later at a higher price either another...
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for one perspective on that, we are joined by michael kranish, of "the boston globe," co-author of the book "the real romney." so michael, who is the real romney? and what is it really, my question is, what is it about his character or his temperament that enabled him to come back from defeat four years ago and prevail this year? >> it's interesting, he had said he never imagined running for president, but many his friends will tell you that he's imagined it since his father failed in his bid to be the republican nominee back in 1968. so it's something he surely thought about for many, many, many years and when he ran the last time around it was not a successful campaign for many reasons, tried to court the social conservatives, evangelicals. this time around he tried to pitch a very simple message that he's mr. fix it. and that worked this time around. >> warner: in terms of his personaly and his character, first of all, is he as competitive as he looks? >> well, he >> well, he ;mx 6cj& he favored aborings rights. but he ran for governor in massachusetts in 2002 he called himself a mo
for one perspective on that, we are joined by michael kranish, of "the boston globe," co-author of the book "the real romney." so michael, who is the real romney? and what is it really, my question is, what is it about his character or his temperament that enabled him to come back from defeat four years ago and prevail this year? >> it's interesting, he had said he never imagined running for president, but many his friends will tell you that he's imagined it since his...
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one month later in november 1863, a host of tig any taries from boston, philadelphia, and washington including president lincoln himself journeyed to gettysburg to dedicate the new soldiers' national cemetery there. lincoln's brief but soaring remarks, like the new burial ground itself, with its rows of identical graves radiating symmetrically and democratically around the cemetery's central focus marked a seismic shift in governmental attitude and policy towards the dead. one that said that the dead were no longer simply the responsibility of their famili families, that they and their loss and their meaning belonged to the nation. >> the gettysburg address is a statement about finding the redemption in the dead. but we need to that in that cemetery that day, half those coffins weren't even buried yet. graves were still open. this was a place of death, mass death. where lincoln tried to craft this statement of so, what does it mean? it is a kind of statement that if this war has purpose, if all these dead have died for something meaningful, then it means we are going to redefine this
one month later in november 1863, a host of tig any taries from boston, philadelphia, and washington including president lincoln himself journeyed to gettysburg to dedicate the new soldiers' national cemetery there. lincoln's brief but soaring remarks, like the new burial ground itself, with its rows of identical graves radiating symmetrically and democratically around the cemetery's central focus marked a seismic shift in governmental attitude and policy towards the dead. one that said that...
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and in boston, former u.s. diplomat nicholas burns, now with the kennedy school of government at harvard university. welcome to you both. let me just ask you to start broadly speaking. what do we take away from last night's debate in terms of how well these two candidates understand american foreign policy and would be a good steward of it? let me start with you. nick burns. >> well, judy, this may sound startling to say in our present red-bl divided partian vironmenbut thinwe have two impressive people running for president. they're both knowledgeable. they're both very smart about the issues. both of them have been successful in nearly everything they've tried in their professional lives. president obama was clearly the more knowledgeable and nuanced and even some's ticketed in the way he describedded the challenges to us on the foreign policy and national security landscape. i thought that governor romney had a very strong moment in the debate, a very good moment when he tied together our domestic economy an
and in boston, former u.s. diplomat nicholas burns, now with the kennedy school of government at harvard university. welcome to you both. let me just ask you to start broadly speaking. what do we take away from last night's debate in terms of how well these two candidates understand american foreign policy and would be a good steward of it? let me start with you. nick burns. >> well, judy, this may sound startling to say in our present red-bl divided partian vironmenbut thinwe have two...
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it's chaired by new york mayor michael bloomberg and boston mayor thomas menino. is there was a lot in that address. 235-- 25 minutes long. but it might be boiled down into one statement. 9 only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. what was your response to wayne la pierre's message today? >> well, generally i was surprised. and i have been watching the nra for a long time. my dad was a gun deal never colorado, among other things. and you know, i sort of know that nra members are basically mainstream folks with mainstream views on guns. and the nra is normally a smart organization or thought to be. but today's statement is probably the best evidence of i have seen that the organization has a serious political positioning problem. it was incoherent it was factually incorrect. and it was so politically tone deaf to suggest to a nation that a sort of rising up for action, that the answer to to many guns in our society is to put an rnl aed guard in the class room, i think that wayne la pierre has a problem within the country but also within
it's chaired by new york mayor michael bloomberg and boston mayor thomas menino. is there was a lot in that address. 235-- 25 minutes long. but it might be boiled down into one statement. 9 only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. what was your response to wayne la pierre's message today? >> well, generally i was surprised. and i have been watching the nra for a long time. my dad was a gun deal never colorado, among other things. and you know, i sort of know...
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knowing what we know does philadelphia, does boston, does new york have to use a changed municipal math to run its daily affairs because of threats of these kinds of things? joe romm? >> well, i think as governor cuomo said, it's a new normal but we have old infrastructure. i think if f you listen to client scientists -- if we had listened to climate scientists who worned, no could flood like this, that storm surges were going to increase as the sea levels rose because ofgob waming and because of more intense storms we might have prevented it. now i think we need to listen to climate scientists who are warning that sea levels could rise, two feet-- as you heard-- by the middle of the century but three, four, five and six feet by the end of the century. so our choices are twofold. we should reduce greenhouse gas emissions so we're on the low end of future warming estimates and secondly we've got to start preparing for the storms that we are stuck with, like hurricane sandy. >> suarez: he used the word "prudence. whats prudent at ts point? >> that's the question. i agree we have a lot of
knowing what we know does philadelphia, does boston, does new york have to use a changed municipal math to run its daily affairs because of threats of these kinds of things? joe romm? >> well, i think as governor cuomo said, it's a new normal but we have old infrastructure. i think if f you listen to client scientists -- if we had listened to climate scientists who worned, no could flood like this, that storm surges were going to increase as the sea levels rose because ofgob waming and...
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the recipient, dallas wiens of texas, appeared alongside his doctors in boston, where he had the ground-breaking operation. he had suffered near-fatal burns on a construction site. the accident left the 26-year- old wiens permanently blind. the credit card processor global payments worked today to reassure card holders, after a major security breach last week. the atlanta-based firm said the problem is "absolutely contained," but the investigation continues. initially, it appeared hackers stole credit card numbers for one and a half million visa and mastercard users across north america. today global payments said the number affected may be smaller. martha johnson has resigned after accounts of lavish spending. the "washington post" reported today on a training conference that ran up costs of $835,000. the expenses included $3200 for a mind reader and $75,000 on a trainingexerse to build a bicycle. the g.s.a.oversee supplies, office space and transportation for federal agencies. on wall street, stocks opened the second quarter with modest gains after a key index showed gains in manufacturing. th
the recipient, dallas wiens of texas, appeared alongside his doctors in boston, where he had the ground-breaking operation. he had suffered near-fatal burns on a construction site. the accident left the 26-year- old wiens permanently blind. the credit card processor global payments worked today to reassure card holders, after a major security breach last week. the atlanta-based firm said the problem is "absolutely contained," but the investigation continues. initially, it appeared...